Joseph Edgar Howard (1878-1961)

Overview

Websites:
	Joseph E. Howard	Biography by wikipedia.org.
	DAHR: Joseph E. Howard	List of 78 historic recordings from 1899 to 1948.

MIDIs

	Title	Co-Author(s)	Sequencer


	I Think I Hear a Woodpecker Knocking at My Family Tree (1909)		James Pitt-Payne
	Peerless (1917), The		James Pitt-Payne

MP3s

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


	Good-Bye My Lady Love (1904)	J.E. Howard	Harry MacDonough	Edison's National Phonograph Company: 8684

Records

	Title (Release Year)	Composer	Performers	Issue


Cross Your Heart (1906)	J.E. Howard	F.C. Stanley Elise Stevenson	Victor: B-3457
Cross Your Heart (1906)	J.E. Howard	Corinne Morgan F.C. Stanley	Columbia: 3379
Good-Bye My Lady Love (1904)	J.E. Howard	Arthur Pryor's Orchestra	Victor: B-1130
I Don't Like Your Family (1907)	J.E. Howard	Billy Murray	Columbia: 3568
I Love the Girls From A to Z (1911)	J.E. Howard	F.V. Bowers	Columbia: 19386
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1937)	J.E. Howard	Jimmy Ray	Victor: BS-014618
I've Lost My Heart But I Don't Care (1908)	J.E. Howard	Frederick J. Wheeler as James F. Harrison	Columbia: 3918
Lonesome Boy's Rosary, A (1928)	J.E. Howard	Maurice J. Gunsky	Columbia: W146996
Man in the Moon, The (1905)	J.E. Howard	Arthur Collins Byron George Harlan	Victor: C-2674
Montana (1930)	J.E. Howard	Ray Miller	Brunswick: C5859
Oh, Gee! Be Sweet to Me, Kid (1908)	J.E. Howard	Billy Murray	Victor: B-6302
On a Saturday Night (1902)	J.E. Howard	Joseph Natus	Victor: [Pre- B-]1300
Roses at Twilight (1919)	J.E. Howard	Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra	Victor: B-23343
Somewhere in France Is Daddy (1917)	J.E. Howard	Charles Hart	Victor: B-20534
Somewhere in France Is the Lily (1917)	J.E. Howard	Arthur Middleton	Edison: 5902
When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love (1908)	J.E. Howard	Billy Murray	Victor: B-6302
⇑When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love (1908)	J.E. Howard	Henry Burr as Irving Gillette	Columbia: 3928
Won't You Be My Girlie? (1906)	J.E. Howard	F.C. Stanley	Columbia: 3459
You Look Awful Good to Father (1906)	J.E. Howard	Bob Roberts	Columbia: 3419

CDs

	Performer	CD Title	Supplier


	Ragtime Music CDs:
	Bill Edwards	Music for Muskoka
	Bill Edwards	Perfessor Bill Sings Volume 3

Monologues

This list is derived from information provided by Monologues.co.uk which went down sometime in 2023.
The loss of this valuable resource is very sad and a mystery.

	Title	Attribution	Remarks


	Good-Bye My Lady Love	Joseph Edgar Howard (words & music)
	Hello! Ma Baby	Joseph Edgar Howard (music) Ida Emerson (words) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.) Ida Emerson (perf.)

	Title	Attribution	Instruments	Source	Remarks


Be Sweet to Me Kid (1907)	J.E. Howard (music) Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana
Blow the Smoke Away (1906)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Central, Give Me Back My Dime (1905)	J.E. Howard (w&m) J.E. Howard (perf.) Corinne (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana Indiana	Pub.
Cotton Pickin' Time in Tennessee (1913)	J.E. Howard (music) Joseph E. Howard (coauth.) Mabel McCane (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Cross Your Heart (1905)	J.E. Howard (music) Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Daddy Is Home and Got His Job Back (1919)	J.E. Howard (w&m)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
Echo of Her Smile (1918), An	J.E. Howard (music) Philander Johnson (words) J.E. Howard (perf.) J.E. Howard (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana
⇑Hello, Ma Baby! (1899)	J.E. Howard (w&m) Ida Emerson (coauth.) J.E. Howard (perf.) Ida Emerson (perf.)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana
Here's to Your Last Girl (1909)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
I Think I Hear a Woodpecker Knocking at My Family Tree (1909)	J.E. Howard (music) Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1909)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	Greer Greer	Pub.
I'd Rather Fight Like Ma (1909)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
I've Lost Ma Baby (1899)	J.E. Howard (w&m) Ida Emerson (coauth.) J.E. Howard (perf.) Ida Emerson (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Indian Love Song (1909)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
It Won't Be Long Before We're Home (1918)	J.E. Howard (music) Paul Cunningham (words) J.E. Howard (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
⇑It's Lonesome To-night (1906)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Just a Little Smile (1911)	J.E. Howard (w&m)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Montana (1910)	J.E. Howard (music) Chas. C. Cohan (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP
Peerless (1917), The	J.E. Howard (music)	Piano	Indiana
Somewhere in France Is Daddy (1917)	J.E. Howard (w&m) J.E. Howard (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Somewhere in France Is the Lily (1917)	J.E. Howard (music) Philander Johnson (words) J.E. Howard (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Greer Indiana	Pub.
Sweetest Girl (1910), The	J.E. Howard (music) Addison Burkhardt (words) Collin Davis (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Sweethearts of Boyhood Days (1904)	J.E. Howard (music) Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana
⇑Taxi Taxi (1909)	J.E. Howard (music) Will M. Hough (words) Frank R Adams (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP Indiana	Pub.
Umpire Is a Most Unhappy Man (1905), The	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
Waltz Me Till I'm Dreamy (1907)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.
Waning Honeymoon (1906), The	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
When Our Boys Come Marching Home (1917)	J.E. Howard (w&m) J.E. Howard (perf.)	Piano, Voice	Indiana	Pub.
When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love (1908)	J.E. Howard (music) Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Piano, Voice	IMSLP	Pub.

Titles

The peformer is featured on 12 sheet music/recording covers. It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located.

	Title	Composer	Attribution	Remarks


	Jingaboo Man (1910), The	Bob Adams	Frank R. Adams (perf.) Will M. Hough (perf.) Joseph E. Howard (perf.)
	⇑I've Lost Ma Baby! (1899)	Harry von Tilzer	Ida Emerson (perf.) Joseph E. Howard (perf.)

Works

This list is arranged in chronological order and contains 186 works by Joseph Edgar Howard (1878-1961). It does not claim to be complete and represents only the number of items located. Keys: ER

(w&m)

1896-1905

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Howard Two-Step	1896
You'll Always Find This Coon Hanging 'round	1896
On the Boulevard	1897		Pub.
Hello, Ma Baby! (w&m)	1899	Ida Emerson (co-author) Ida Emerson (perf.) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.)
Honey, I Do Love You Song and Chorus	1899
I've Lost Ma Baby (w&m)	1899	Ida Emerson (co-author) Ida Emerson (perf.) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.)	Pub.
Ma Baby Girl	1899	Ida Emerson (words)	Pub.
My Gal Has Left Me	1899	Ida Emerson (words) Max Hoffmann (words) Lucy Daly (perf.)	Pub.
Queen of Charcoal Alley, The	1899	Ida Emerson (co-author) Andrew B. Sterling (words)
Since Daddy's Been Taken Away	1901	Ida Emerson (words) Maurice J. Steinberg (words)
Honey Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone	1902	Ida Emerson (perf.)
⇑ On a Saturday Night	1902	Andrew B. Sterling (words) Joseph Natus (perf.)
Paraders, The	1902
There's Something Doing Around My Heart	1902	Arthur Gillespie (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
Good-Bye My Lady Love (w&m)	1904	Ida Emerson (perf.) Harry MacDonough (perf.) Arthur Pryor's Orchestra (perf.) Blanche Ring (perf.)	Pub.
Honolulu	1904
If I Were the Man in the Moon	1904	Frank R Adams (words) L. M Hough (words)	Pub.
In Dear Old Kankakee	1904
Land of Nod, The	1904
March of the Eagles	1904	E. T. Griffin (co-author)	Pub.
Sweethearts of Boyhood Days	1904	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words)
Ask the Man	1905
Big Banshee, The	1905
⇑ Brownies	1905	Adams & Hough (words)	Pub.
Central, Give Me Back My Dime (w&m)	1905	Corinne (perf.) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.)	Pub.
Cinderella	1905
Cross Your Heart	1905	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words) Corinne Morgan (perf.) Frank C. Stanley (perf.) Elise Stevenson (perf.) from "The Umpire"	Pub.
Drums of the Fore and Aft	1905
Heap Love	1905
I Want a Girl Like You	1905
I'm Lonesome For You	1905
Man in the Moon, The (w&m)	1905	Arthur Collins (perf.) Byron George Harlan (perf.)
My Illinois	1905
Oh the Deuce, What's the Use	1905
Same Old Moon	1905	Hough (words) Adams (words)	Pub.
⇑ Sun That Shines in Dixieland, The	1905

1905-1908

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Umpire Is a Most Unhappy Man, The	1905	Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)
You Look Awful Good to Father	1905	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words) Bob Roberts (perf.)	Pub.
Blow the Smoke Away	1906	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words) from "The Time, the Place and the Girl"	Pub.
Clorinda Jackson	1906
Dixie I Love You	1906	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
Don't You Tell	1906	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
First and Only	1906
Heart to Let, A	1906	Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
I Don't Like Your Family	1906	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words) Billy Murray (perf.)	Pub.
It's Lonesome To-night	1906	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words) from "The Time, the Place and the Girl"	Pub.
Old Broadway	1906
⇑ Same Old Story	1906	Arthur Gillespie (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
So (w&m)	1906	Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
Thursday Is My Jonah Day	1906	Will M. Hough (words)
Time, the Place, and the Girl, The	1906	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words)	Pub.
Umpire - Selection, The	1906
Waning Honeymoon, The	1906	Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)	Pub.
What's the Use of Dreaming	1906	Will M Hough (words) Frank R Adams (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
Won't You Be My Girlie?	1906	Mabel Barrison (perf.) Frank C. Stanley (perf.)	Pub.
Be Sweet to Me Kid	1907	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words) June Haver (perf.) Mark Stevens (perf.) from "The Girl Question"	Pub.
Build a Fence Around To-Day	1907	Collin Davis (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
California	1907	Colin davis (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
Girl Behind the Counter, The	1907	Bob Adams (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ I Hate to Work on Monday	1907
I'd Like to Have You Call Me Honey	1907
In the Day's of '49 (w&m)	1907	Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
It's Good-Bye Pal	1907
Just Say You Care (w&m)	1907	Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
Love Up in a Tree	1907	Collin Davis (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
My Lolo Maid	1907	Mabel Barrison (perf.)
There Is No Place Like Home	1907
Waltz Me Till I'm Dreamy	1907	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words) from "The Girl Question"	Pub.
Watching the Blue Smoke Curl	1907	Collin Davis (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
When Eyes Like Yours Looked Into Eyes Like Mine	1907	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
Worried	1907	Collin Davis (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
⇑ Don't Be Anybody's Moon But Mine	1908

1908-1909

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Don't Be Cross With Me	1908	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)
Don't Teach Me to Swim Alone	1908
Honeymoon Trail	1908	Will M. Hough (words)
I Don't Want a Million Dollars	1908
I Need the Morning Air (w&m)	1908	Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
I'm in Love With All the Girls I Know	1908	Will M. Hough (words)
I've Lost My Heart But I Don't Care	1908	Frederick J. Wheeler as James F. Harrison (perf.)
If They'd Only Let Poor Adam's Rib Alone	1908	Will M. Hough (words)
Love Me Just Because	1908	Will M. Hough (words)
None But the Brave Deserve the Fair	1908	Will M. Hough (words)
Nothing to Do But Do Nothing	1908
⇑ Oh, Gee! Be Sweet to Me, Kid	1908	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words) Billy Murray (perf.)
One Little Boy Had Money	1908
Stubborn Cinderella, A	1908		Pub.
What's the Use	1908	Will M. Hough (words)
When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love	1908	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words) Henry Burr as Irving Gillette (perf.) Billy Murray (perf.) from "A Stubborn Cinderella"	Pub.
Whose Little Girl Are You	1908	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
You Can't Be a Friend to Everybody	1908
Cairo	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
Can It Be Love?	1909
Don't Choose a Gibson Girl	1909
Don't Forget the Girl You Left Behind	1909
Everybody Wondered Why They Married	1909
⇑ Everything That Father Did Was Right	1909
Follow the Rainbow Trail	1909	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
Girls That Can Never Be Mine, The	1909
Goddess of Liberty, The	1909	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R Adams (words)	Pub.
Golden Girl, The	1909
Her Eyes Are Blue For Yale	1909
Here's to Your Last Girl	1909	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words) from "The Goddess of Liberty"	Pub.
I Can't Be True, So Far Away	1909
I Can't Love Everybody	1909
I Don't Want to Marry Your Family	1909	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
I Fell in Love on Monday	1909
I Think I Hear a Woodpecker Knocking at My Family Tree	1909	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R. Adams (words)	Pub.
⇑ I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now	1909	Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words) June Haver (perf.) Jimmy Ray (perf.) Mark Stevens (perf.)	Pub.

1909-1910

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


I'd Rather Fight Like Ma	1909	Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)
I'm Afraid to Be Alone	1909
If All Moons Were Honeymoons	1909	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
Indian Love Song	1909	Frank R. Adams (words) Will M. Hough (words)	Pub.
Jack O'Lantern	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
Lets Pretend You Love Me	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
Lonely	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
Love Me All the Time (w&m)	1909	Mabel Barrison (perf.) Anna Laughlin (perf.)	Pub.
Oskee Wow Wow	1909	Will M. Hough (words) Frank Adams (words)	Pub.
Pale Golden Star	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
Selection From a Prince of To-Night	1909
⇑ Ship of Dreams	1909
Song of the Butterfly, The	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
Taxi Taxi	1909	Will M. Hough (words) Frank R Adams (words) from "The Goddess of Liberty"	Pub.
Tell Her in the Golden Summer	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
To-Night Will Never Come Again	1909
Tummy, Tummy Tum	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
When Love Is Waiting Round the Corner	1909
Where Are They Now?	1909	Will M. Hough (words)
You Won't Know Anybody There	1909
You're a Dear Old World After All	1909	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
Boys	1910	Collin Davis (perf.)
Dear Little Ghost of Your Smile, The	1910	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
⇑ Dearie, You and I	1910
Don't Forget the Number	1910
Every Girl I Love Is Someone's Wife	1910
I Love the Girls From A to Z	1910	Frederic V. Bowers (perf.)
I'll Be Your Honey When It's Moonlight	1910	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
I'll Take You Home To-Morrow, if You'll Take Me Home To-Night	1910
Iddle-De-Iddle-De-I	1910
If You Won't Marry Me, Then I'll Marry You	1910
If You, Won't Marry Me, Then I'll Marry You	1910	Frank R Adams (words) Will M Hough (words)	Pub.
In a Bungalow	1910
It's Funny What Love Makes You Do	1910	Lee Shubert (words) Sam S Shubert (words) Mabel Barrison (perf.)	Pub.
Kiss Me	1910	Will M. Hough (words)
⇑ Lady Wine	1910

1910-1919

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Mary	1910
Montana	1910	Chas. C. Cohan (words) Ray Miller (perf.)
My Scarecrow Maidie	1910
Sweetest Girl, The	1910	Addison Burkhardt (words) Collin Davis (words) from "The Sweetest Girl in Paris"
Weather Man, The	1910
Frisco Frizz, The	1911
Just a Little Smile (w&m)	1911	Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.) Mabel McCane (perf.)	Pub.
Just For You	1911
Love's Dreamy Tune	1911
Bread and Cheese and Kisses	1912	Herbert Stothart (co-author) Theo. Stempfel (perf.)
From You, For Me	1912
⇑ Love For a Day	1912	Herbert Stothart (co-author)
Those Wonderful Eyes (w&m)	1912	Mabel McCane (perf.)	Pub.
Waltz Me Around and Around in the Old Ball-Room	1912
Broadway Honeymoon, A	1913
Cotton Picki N'time [Sic] in Dixie Land	1913	Mabel McCane (words) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.) Mabel McCane (perf.)	Pub.
Cotton Pickin' Time in Tennessee	1913	Joseph Edgar Howard (co-author) Mabel McCane (words)	Pub.
He's Mah Dancing Man	1913
Salvation Glide, The	1913
When the Love You Love, Loves You	1913	Collin Davis (words)	Pub.
Let's Go a Roaming	1915
Some of These Nights	1915	Herbert Stothart (co-author) Harry Breen (words) Joseph Noel (words)
That Strictly Neutral Jag	1915	Herbert P. Stothart (co-author) Joseph Noel (words)	Pub.
⇑ Peerless - Song, The	1917
Peerless, The	1917		Pub.
Somewhere in France Is Daddy (w&m)	1917	Charles Hart (perf.) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.)
Somewhere in France Is the Lily	1917	Philander Johnson (words) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.) Arthur Middleton (perf.)	Pub.
When Our Boys Come Marching Home (w&m)	1917	Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.)	Pub.
Echo of Her Smile, An	1918	Philander Johnson (words) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.)
It Won't Be Long Before We're Home	1918	Paul Cunningham (words) Joseph Edgar Howard (perf.)	Pub.
As the Grain Needs the Rain, So I Need You Once Again (w&m)	1919	I.B. Kornblum (co-author) Z. Myers (co-author)	Pub.
Daddy Is Home and Got His Job Back (w&m)	1919		Pub.
Let's Start All Over Again (w&m)	1919	Authur E. Behim (co-author)
Once Again	1919	I.B. Kornblum (co-author) &1 (words) Z. Myers (words)	Pub.
Roses at Twilight	1919	Yerkes Jazarimba Orchestra (perf.)
⇑ You're Just My Style (w&m)	1919

1920-n.d.

Title	Year	Attribution	Remarks


Sweet Little Mary Ann	1920	Jack King (co-author) Garfield Kilgour (words)
Whistle a Song	1920	I. B Kornblum (co-author) Zion Myers (words)
Virginia Brown	1923	Norman J Vause (co-author) Henry Welling (co-author) Ethlyn Clark (perf.)
Lonesome Boy's Rosary, A	1928	Maurice J. Gunsky (perf.)
There's Something in My Eye	1942
Night in Coontown, A	n.d.	Ida Emerson (co-author) in Piano Music Magazine

Videos

	Composer	Title	Performer


	J.E. Howard	Hello, Ma Baby! (0:00)	Ragtime Dorian Henry